Unclear Whether Haiku 5.5 can be picked as a model yet is not known.
What
This build knows about a new model, Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5). The name appears 16 times in this build and not at all in the previous one.
- The
haikualias, the short name that stands for the current Haiku model, now defaults toclaude-haiku-5-5in place ofclaude-haiku-4-5. Aper_providermap keepsbedrock,vertex,foundry,mantle,anthropic_aws,anthropic_google_cloudandgatewayonclaude-haiku-4-5, so only Anthropic's own API gets the new model. - The built-in model entry lists a 1M-token context window, 128000 maximum output tokens, default effort
medium, a Bedrock id, andclaude-haiku-4-5as the fallback on third-party providers. - A
haiku_55pricing tier is added, listed as input 0.1 and output 0.5, with a long-prompt surcharge above 100,000 prompt tokens. - The short name
haiku-5-5maps to the model, any id containingclaude-haiku-5-5is recognised as it, and it gets its own family entry,haiku55. - A new environment variable,
VERTEX_REGION_CLAUDE_HAIKU_5_5, sets which Google Vertex region this model uses. - A capability check that treated any model name containing "haiku" like
claude-opus-4-6andclaude-sonnet-4-6now leavesclaude-haiku-5-5out of that group. - The model-list text in the system prompt now says "The most recent Claude models are the Claude 5 family." without "and Haiku 4.5", and no longer maps
claude-haiku-4-5to its dated id. - New system-prompt guidance tells the model that reasoning effort does not change how much of a request it should finish, and that it should not check in before starting a large task. It applies only to models that pass the
haiku_5_5_early_stopping_guidancecheck and when the server-side flagtengu_idempotent_wolfis on. The flag defaults to true in the code, and nothing has been read about it.
Why
If you use the haiku alias on Anthropic's own API, including for background and side tasks that use it, those requests now go to Haiku 5.5 and are priced as Haiku 5.5. On Bedrock, Vertex, Foundry, Mantle or a gateway nothing moves unless you choose the new model yourself.
Names in the bundleclaude-haiku-5-5
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Added Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), now the default Haiku model on the Anthropic API — 1M context, $0.10/$0.50 per Mtok ($0.50/$2.50…